International: More Temblors

The Russian administrative setup experienced further quakes last weekend
when the Supreme Soviet announced that the youngest member of the
Politburo, Nikolai Voznesensky, 45, had been released as chairman of
the State Planning Commission (head of the U.S.S.R.'s industrial
production). This had occurred on the same day that Molotov and Mikoyan
were released of their ministries. But there was a difference: Molotov
and Mikoyan remained as Deputy Prime Ministers; Voznesensky did not.

Voznesensky was a protégé of the late Andrei Zhdanov. His removal may be
explained by the death of his patron, or by charges made before the
Supreme Soviet last week...